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1082 Prophecy of Ezechiel

and your doings that were not good: and your the plain, and they were exceeding dry.
iniquities, and your wicked deeds shall displease 3 And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou
you. think these bones shall live and I answered: O
32 It is not for your sakes that I will do this, Lord God, thou knowest.
saith the Lord God, be it known to you: be 4 And he said to me: Prophesy concerning
confounded, and ashamed at your own ways, O these bones; and say to them: Ye dry bones,
house of Israel. hear the word of the Lord.
33 Thus saith the Lord God: In the day that 5 Thus saith the Lord God to these bones:
I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities, and Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall
shall cause the cities to be inhabited, and shall live.
repair the ruinous places, 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will
34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, which cause flesh to grow over you, and will cover you
before was waste in the sight of all that passed with skin: and I will give you spirit and you shall
by, live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
35 They shall say: This land that was un- 7 And I prophesied as he had commanded me:
tilled is become as a garden of pleasure: and the and as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold
cities that were abandoned, and desolate, and a commotion: and the bones came together, each
destroyed, are peopled and fenced. one, its joint.
36 And the nations, that shall be left round 8 And I saw, and behold the sinews, and the
about you, shall know that I the Lord have built flesh came up upon them: and the skin was
up what was destroyed, and planted what was stretched out over them, but there was no spirit
desolate, that I the Lord have spoken and done in them.
it. 9 And he said to me: Prophesy to the spirit,
37 Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this prophesy, O son of man, and say to the spirit:
shall the house of Israel find me, that I will do it Thus saith the Lord God: Come, spirit, from the
for them: I will multiply them as a flock of men, four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let
them live again.
38 As a holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem
in her solemn feasts: so shall the waste cities be 10 And I prophesied as he had commanded
me: and the spirit came into them, and they
full of flocks of men: and they shall know that I
lived: and they stood up upon their feet, an ex-
am the Lord.
ceeding great army.
11 And he said to me: Son of man: All these
Chapter 37 bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our
bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought are cut off.
me forth in the spirit of the Lord: and set me 12 Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus
down in the midst of a plain that was full of saith the Lord God: Behold I will open your
bones. graves, and will bring you out of your sepulchres,
2 And he led me about through them on every O my people: and will bring you into the land
side: now they were very many upon the face of of Israel.